Auction Sniping Services

[SwiftDeath]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

You dirty little sneaks, every last one of you! And here I was thinking that I'm competing against somebody hanging around during the last 30 seconds of the auction, pulling eye-crusties out of the corners of their eyes and chugging energy drinks to stay alert just like me... I call penalty!

lol you all know me

If I'm willing to show this strategy, can you imagine what else I must have up my sleeve?

[KnightOfTruth]

There's an auction ending down the road sometime that'll be in the wee hours of the morning, if I didn't care about it, I'd probably use it as a dry-run to test this service out, but I think I'll just have to suck it up and pull an all-nighter for this one

[Dr_Jengo]

Damn.. now I must bid against machines as well with everyone possibly wanting to use this now.. Curse you Swift!!

Nah.. just kidding, I'm sure it has more benefits to use it. I'm actually considering using it after this happened to me that day..

Was watching an auction.. started off at $0.99 with a BIN price.. Didn't want to BIN so I bid early. Got outbid with a few hours left.. No worries, I'll snipe it manually later I thought..

So with 20 mins left to the auction, I got ready to snipe. It was about 1.40am. Auction ends at about 2.00am. I was sitting on the bed..

1.45am: Ok man, I'm ready..
1.50am: Alright this is it, this auction is mine!
1.52am: Here it goes.. this thing is going down!
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2.25am: Oh crap! I dozed off!!!!!!

To make matters worse, nobody else bid on that auction and it went for a super low price at $3+. Really crappy man. Been looking for those for quite a while and at that price, I really felt like kicking myself.

So yea, that was when I thought to myself I should have used the sniping tool..

[blockbusterboy]

Originally Posted by Dr_Jengo

1.50am: Alright this is it, this auction is mine!
1.52am: Here it goes.. this thing is going down!
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2.25am: Oh crap! I dozed off!!!!!!

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by Dr_Jengo

So with 20 mins left to the auction, I got ready to snipe. It was about 1.40am. Auction ends at about 2.00am. I was sitting on the bed..

1.45am: Ok man, I'm ready..
1.50am: Alright this is it, this auction is mine!
1.52am: Here it goes.. this thing is going down!
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2.25am: Oh crap! I dozed off!!!!!!

Nooooooo.... This JUST happened to me last night, I even set an alarm and everything but I set it for 15 minutes before it ended thinking it'd give me time to "wake up"... Unfortunately it gave me time to fall back asleep, missed a great deal on a Halo Reach Press Kit (the briefcase) :'(

[Redmagster]

Superb useful thread full of good hints on winning on eBay.

Even to those who are not members of CE.org......

So now we'll be up against all the casual lurkers too....

[Ayiu]

ebay Germany prohibits the use of auction sniping tools

[Redmagster]

Have you actually tried it?!?

I saw an auction once that said 'no sniping' interesting I thought... And they're going to police it how??